Empire and enterprise : money, power and the adventurers for Irish land during the British Civil Wars / / David Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810192903321
• Autore: Brown David <1968 April 25->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 9781526132000; 1-5261-3201-X; 1-5261-5210-X; 1-5261-3200-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Collana: Studies in early modern Irish history.
• Disciplina: 941.506
• Soggetti: Land settlement - Ireland - History - 17th century; Land tenure - Ireland - 17th century; Ireland History 1625-1649
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Atlantic oligarchy : Ireland in the early English Atlantic world -- The Three Kingdoms -- The Adventure for Irish land -- Grocers' Hall -- Commonwealth -- Republic -- Restoration.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.